LibriVox recording of Meadowlark Basin by B. M. Bower. Read in English by Lee Smalley This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding but some decidedly not. A cashier is murdered during a bank robbery. The loot and the thieves are sought with dark concerns about who may be guilty. Family ties, ranch life, humor, and romance are interwoven throughout. B. M. Bower was one of the first women to write novels...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, old west, bank robbery, butch cassidy
LibriVox recording of Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other Sketches by Thomas P. Detter. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked designs of corrupt parties. Man and woman were created for a noble purpose by their Creator; but how often do we see families that have lived long happily together rent in twain by such malignant characters as Mrs. H., Aunt Polly and Martha...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, non-fiction, American Literature, african-american authors of 19th century,...
LibriVox recording of The Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties by Arthur Gray Butler. Read in English by KevinS. This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates for the reader many of the boys' pranks, challenges, sorrows, and victories and, as well, gives a good sense of school life in the middle of the 19th Century. Anyone who looks back with fondness on his or her younger days of schooling will enjoy this work....
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, public school, england, rugby, schoolboys
LibriVox recording of Against Celsus Book 5 by Origen of Alexandria. (Translated by Frederick Crombie.) Read in English by David Ronald. Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on Christianity in his treatise "The True Word". Among a variety of other charges, Celsus had...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Christianity, Jesus, Christ, church history, apologetics
LibriVox recording of The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed. Read in English by Daryl Wor Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East Lancaster, giving two characters fairly difficult accents to perform. The story entails a widow, Margaret Irving, and her son, Lynn. Returning to East Lancaster after 20 years they are hoping to further Lynn’s musical career under the tutelage of Herr Kaufmann, the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fiction, romance, music
LibriVox recording of The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin. Read in English by allegro200Hz A technical report of the experiments and observations performed on various species of twining, tendril-climbing, root-climbing, and leaf-climbing plants, with some review of past literature and an emphasis on taking measurements to allow the quantitative comparison of sensitivity and speed of reactions across different genera and species. Conclusions and hypotheses on the fitness...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, plants, botany, geotropism
LibriVox recording of Verse and Worse by Harry Graham. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Aa collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. - Summary by mleigh For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording....
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, humor
LibriVox recording of The Younger Sister by Catherine Anne Hubback . Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Emma Watson, the youngest child of six from a poor family, was sent away as a child to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. When her uncle dies and her aunt remarries, Emma (now a pretty, well-educated, and opinionated young woman) returns home to help care for her ailing father and reconnect with her estranged siblings. She quickly must learn how to behave among the less affluent and...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, romance, family drama
LibriVox recording of Iris by Arthur Wing Pinero. Read in English by a full cast. Left a widow 5 years ago at age 21, Iris Bellamy is shackled by terms of her husband's will that would leave her penniless if she remarries. Of course, "if she married a rich man, her interest in her late husband's estate would be no longer indispensible to her." But "rich men generally have some odious quality to counterbalance their wealth. The men one would marry are as poor as mice." So...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, social commentary, will with conditions, love and lovers
LibriVox recording of The Last Wish by Robert Bulwer-Lytton. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Last Wish by Robert Bulwer-Lytton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9, 2022. ----- Robert Edward Bulwer-Lytton was the son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and was an English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet under the pseudonym Owen Meredith. - Summary by TriciaG For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry
LibriVox recording of Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends by Marshall Saunders. Read in English by Volunteer Readers. Dear little Princess Sukey sitting by the fire—pretty little pigeon—of what is she thinking as she dreamily eyes the blazing wood? If a pigeon could review its past life, what she has of bird mind would be running back over the series of adventures that she had ere she established herself in this well ordered household. Has she any mentality of her...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children, bird, animals, fiction
LibriVox recording of Ein Büchlein vom Warten by Margarethe von Sydow. Read in German by lorda Hier beschreibt Margarethe von Sydow, alias Franz Rosen, verschiedene Formen des Wartens aus religiöser und sittlicher Sicht. (Zusammenfassung von lorda) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, religion, Deutsch, religiös, menschliche betrachtungen, sittlich
LibriVox recording of A Bold Stroke for a Husband by Hannah Cowley. Read in English by volunteer readers. "Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present certain improbabilities to the audience, without incurring the danger of having them called such; and the authoress, by the skill with which she has used this dramatic permittance, ... has formed a most interesting plot, and embellished it with lively, humorous,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, wayward husband, crossed lovers, stolen inheritance, disguised woman
LibriVox recording of Da draußen vor dem Tore by Hermann Löns. Read in German by various volunteers. In kurzen Geschichten malt Hermann Löns erzählerisch heimatliche Naturbilder der Flora und Fauna. Als Grundlage dienen Beobachtungen, welche der Jäger-, Natur- und Heimatdichter, vor allem als Naturforscher und -schützer gemacht hat. Sein Landschaftsideal war die Heide. Sie ist hintergründiges Thema in den meisten seiner Erzählungen. Zusammenfassung von lorda For further information,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, German, Deutsch, natur, fauna, flora, naturbilder
LibriVox recording of Llegendes catalanes i altres narracions by Various. Read in Catalan by Lis Balcells; Mireia Castillón; Rut Vidal; Xisco Segura; Ferran Aquest llibre inclou una selecció de textos aportats per participants en la campanya @donantsdeveu de 2021. Inclou principalment una selecció de les Llegendes catalanes publicades el 1881 per Maria del Pilar Maspons i Labrós (1841-1907) sota el pseudònim Maria de Bell-lloc. Aquest recull de llegendes constitueix un treball no prou...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording of Pimpernel and Rosemary by Baroness Emma Orczy. Read in English by Holly A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to Hungary and much intrigue involving his good friend, Rosemary, Nazis, and spies ensue. - Summary by Holly Rushik For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, scarlet pimpernel spies
LibriVox recording of For Love and Life Vol. 1 by Margaret O. Oliphant. Read in English by Librivox volunteers “The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel opens with Mrs. Murray walking with two of her grandchildren along the banks of Loch Arroch in the Scottish border country. They appear to be well-to-do and distinguished, but all is not well within the family and sacrifices are necessary. -...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, scotland, family, Sacrifice, grandmother, loch arroch
LibriVox recording of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921 by W. H. Fawcett. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead to the formation of the well-known Fawcett Publications, which issued "Whiz Comics" and...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, humor, American Literature, periodical, magazine, laughter, jokes, jingles,...
LibriVox recording of La Symphonie pastorale by André Gide. Lu en français par Christiane Jehanne Un pasteur recueille dans sa famille une jeune fille aveugle et non éduquée. Un attachement, un sentiment naît. Cécité physique, cécité psychologique, amour, clairvoyance … et principes éducatifs … Un magnifique roman psychologique dont les personnages principaux, Gertrude, le pasteur, Amélie son épouse, Jacques leur fils sont ciselés finement par André Gide. Chaque phrase a son...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, roman cecite
LibriVox recording of Ο κακός δρόμος by Γρηγόριος Ξενόπουλος. Read in Greek by Penelope Στο διήγημα του Ξενόπουλου “Ο κακός δρόμος” βλέπουμε να θριαμβεύει η ομορφιά και όχι η λογική, η ομορφιά και όχι η δύναμη και πάλι η ομορφιά και όχι η ηθική. Ο συγγραφέας μας υποχρεώνει να δεχτούμε την...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, zakynthos
LibriVox recording of The Atom and the Ocean by E. W. Seabrook Hull. Read in English by Librivox volunteers This is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an overview of the ocean, the role of nuclear energy, research project, oceanic instruments, nuclear powered vessels, desalination, and radiation preservation of seafood. - Summary by Larry Wilson For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, submarine, nuclear power, atomic energy, atomic energy commission,...
LibriVox recording of Billy Whiskers in France by Frances Trego Montgomery. Read in English by volunteer readers. Billy Whiskers is in France, but he is homesick. Of course, he makes new friends and entangles himself in many adventures. He has encounters with nurses, farmers, and a terrible wharf rat. Why is he at a dog cemetery? Why is there a submarine explosion? Join our favorite goat on his adventures in France. - Summary by Larry Wilson For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, juvenile literature, paris, France, animal stories, goat
LibriVox recording of The Sentimental Song Book by Julia A. Moore. Read in English by volunteer readers. Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its questionable grammar, clumsily contrived rhymes and its unique mixture of rigorous moralism and sentimentality, attracted wide-spread mockery from the press and the public, but also the attention of literary celebrities like Mark Twain. Ogden Nash, the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, Michigan, bad verse, flint
LibriVox recording of Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13 by Various. Read in English by ToddHW; Heather Eney; Chad Jackson; Sonia; Jennifer Wilson; Rita Boutros; docdlmartin; MaryAnn; zandra; yourbookvoice; Owlivia; Sonia; Sonrisa Jones; calbrummie; Michele Eaton; Alan Mapstone; Colleen McMahon; Rita Boutros; Larry Wilson The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, English literature, norse literature, egyptian literature
LibriVox recording of The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (Version 2) by Arthur Scott Bailey. Read in English by volunteer readers. "Little Mrs. Ladybug was a worker. Nobody could deny that. To be sure, she had to stop now and then to talk to her neighbors, because Mrs. Ladybug dearly loved a bit of gossip. At the same time there wasn't anyone in Pleasant Valley that helped Farmer Green more than she did. She tried her hardest to keep the trees in the orchard free from insects."- Summary by the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording of Religio Journalistici by Christopher Morley. Read in English by David Wales The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wales For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, humor, memoir, life reflections
LibriVox recording of Bible (YLT) NT 08: 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians by Young's Literal Translation. (Translated by Robert Young.) Read in English by KevinS The Old and New Covenants, translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages. - From the title page For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or...
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LibriVox opname van De Kinderen van Kapitein Grant door Jules Verne. Gelezen in het Nederlands door Bart de Leeuw. Een fles spoelt aan bij Schotland met daarin een zwaar gehavend bericht van Kapitein Grant die schipbreuk heeft geleden. Een Schotse Lord en zijn vrouw, een verstrooide Franse professor en de kinderen van de kapitein gaan op reis om hem te vinden. Een spannend verhaal en ook een zeer uitgebreide aardrijkskundeles. (tekst: Bart de Leeuw) Voor meer informatie, inclusief een link naar...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, zuid amerika, australië, nieuw zeeland
LibriVox recording of Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories by Henry Lawson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers 01. That Pretty Girl in the Army The Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Outback town of Bourke. That is, until Sister Hannah arrives... - Summary by Son of the Exiles Coordinated by: Son of the Exiles Sister Hannah: Devorah Allen Jack Moonlight: Tomas Peter Billy Woods: Jim Locke Jake Boreham: Larry Wilson Reformed Drunkard: Wayne Cooke...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, religion, romance, australia, salvation army, outback
LibriVox recording of Faith by Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of Faith by Fanny Kemble. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 16, 2022. ----- Fanny Kemble was a British actress who also found time to be a popular author of poetry, plays, travelogues, eleven volumes of memoirs, and more. She was an abolitionist after having been married for 14 years to a wealthy American plantation owner. This poem...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, relationships, human nature, trust
LibriVox recording of T. Tembarom (Version 2) by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read in English by Keith Salis; T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspapers. On day, he gets notified that he has become heir to a large estate in England with a healthy income. Though this would the the ultimate blessing to most, it sets him too high in class in English society for the simple Little Anne, the love of his life. His main goal is to...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording of Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs. Read in English by annie70 Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage.. Little Crampton has its complement of “typical” villagers – the pompous bank manager, the local gossip, the ageing parson – but this is spring 1915, and the young men are away fighting and dying in the Great...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fiction, women's literature
LibriVox recording of The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge by Margaret Vandercook. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. The story of the four Ranch Girls is plainly just beginning. Girls so entirely unlike in temperament and ideals, as Jack, Jean, Olive and Frieda, cannot fail to lead lives that will develop in interest. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, ranch life, western life, girls' adventure
LibriVox recording of The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner. Translated by Grace Isabel Colbron. Read in English by J. M. Smallheer "The Case of the Lamp That Went Out" is one of the earlier Joseph Muller stories by Austrian author, Auguste Groner, originally published in German in 1899. The English translation was published in 1910 in a collection of five detective stories in "Joseph Muller: Detective - Being the Account of Some Adventures in the Professional...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Mystery, Austria, Joseph Muller, police detective
LibriVox recording of The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) by Pierre Beaumarchais. (Translated by Thomas Holcroft.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about lovers' misdoings and French society. Because of its rebellious themes,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, satire, plays, marriage, France, figaro
LibriVox recording of Four Masters of Etching by Frederick Wedmore. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour Haden, Jules Jacquemart, J. A. M. Whistler, and Alphonse Legros - Summary by Larry Wilson For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, art, art history, artists, etching, seymour haden, jules jacquemart, j. a. m....
LibriVox recording of Авантюристы гражданской войны by A. Vetlugin. Read in Russian by Mark Chulsky Military history essays of WWI and Russian Civil War, lesser known episodes. A.Vetlugin (a.k.a. Voldemar Ryndzune) became an adventurer himself in his early 20s, he knew what he was writing about. A.Ветлугин (Владимир Рындзюн) был участником Гражданской войны. Его наблюдательность и частые...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, World War I, russian civil war
LibriVox recording of The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes by James Grant. Read in English by Librivox volunteers James Grant was a prolific Scottish writer of novels and "novelettes", particularly centered around military life. Included with this regimental tale, are four such novelettes or short stories. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, history, Christmas, military, Army, engagement, heraldry
LibriVox recording of The Silver Shadow, and Other Day Dreams by Frank W. Boreham. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of editorials during his lifetime, with no sign of slowing down, even up until his death at age 88. He wrote with a distinctive style, seeming to be able to draw a spiritual lesson out of any conceivable topic. Boreham admits that this...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, australia, sermons, new zealand
LibriVox recording of Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 by Arthur Young. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst of the French Revolution. His report on life in the capital and in the countryside in the years 1787, 1788, and 1789, replete with droll traveler's mishaps, becomes an eyewitness account of a society on the brink of catastrophe. From...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, french revolution, paris, Jacobins, Marie Antoinette, loire, versailles,...
LibriVox recording of A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But this book shows a different side of MacDonald. A Dish of Orts is a varied collection of essays, mostly in the nature of literary criticism. These essays are, in MacDonald's words, "but fragmentary...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, imagination, Wordsworth, shelley, hamlet, st. george, browning
LibriVox recording of Under the Tiger's Claws by Nicholas Carter. Read in English by Librivox volunteers Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". In this story, Nick is called to visit his banker friend, Mr. Gilsley, who is concerned about some missing money. Also present at the meeting is Belle...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, investigation, gambling, embezzlement, murer
LibriVox recording of Wives on Strike by Lillian Sutton Pelée. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. The "Wives' Welfare Club" is meeting together so they may air grievances about their husbands and the inequality that women experience. During this meeting the wives decide to "go on Strike" and nominate Jane Spink to be the test case. Betty, who is a newlywed of only 30 days, boasts of her husband's perfect qualities and is amused at the other wives' complaints. ...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, women's rights, equality, husbands vs wives
LibriVox recording of Is War Diminishing? by Frederick Adams Woods; Alexander Baltzly. Read in English by Leon Harvey A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to periods of war, as concluded by consultation with other historians, and seeks to answer the question as to if the incidence and duration of periods of national conflict were becoming more intense or not, and how the periods of war may...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, historiometry, international conflict
LibriVox recording of My Brigantine by James Fenimore Cooper. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of My Brigantine by James Fenimore Cooper. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 26, 2021. ----- After a stint on a commercial voyage, James Fenimore Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. Cooper, beloved though...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, maritime, ship
LibriVox recording of The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy. Read in English by Splinter and Jim Locke Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy's first novel tells the story of the four Lorimer sisters, who decide to open their own photography business after the death of their father which has left them in poverty. The novel examines the opportunities and difficulties of urban life for the "New Woman" in the late nineteenth century. Not only was Levy unusual as a...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, feminism
LibriVox recording of The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray. Read in English by Volunteer Readers The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability, marriages, love, and the culture in which they lived. The novel teaches the reader what it was like to live in Victorian England - Summary by Stav...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fiction, novel, saga
LibriVox recording of The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read in English by ToddHW; Alan Mapstone; Greg Giordano; Larry Wilson; Sonia; David Purdy; Jenn Broda; Lynette Caulkins; Jake Malizia; ToddHW; Alan Mapstone; Greg Giordano; Sonia; David Purdy; Jenn Broda; Adrian Stephens; HelloCentral; Jake Malizia; ToddHW; Sonia; Jenn Broda; Adrian Stephens; Jake Malizia; Alan Mapstone; Greg Giordano; Rob Marland; Larry Wilson; Sonia; David Purdy; Jenn Broda; Andrew Gaunce; HelloCentral; Jake Malizia;...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, drama, tragedy, murder, Italy, shelley, tyranny, 1500s
LibriVox recording of The Cat's Paw by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Read in English by James R. Hedrick Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the evidence points to murder. She is supposed to have been penniless but when her will is found her niece Kitty inherits a fortune. Grave suspicion shifts from one person to another and the two suitors for Kitty's hand whom Washington society had watched with interest seem closely connected with the many clues which again and again prove...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Detective, murder, washington d.c. -- fiction, inspector mitchell, family...
LibriVox recording of 813 by Maurice Leblanc. Read in French by Bidou Roman policier mettant en scène Arsène Lupin dans le contexte politique et diplomatique d’avant la Grande Guerre, tout au long d'une série d'incroyables péripéties. Cet ambitieux récit démarre par un simple meurtre, et se poursuit par les recherches successives d'un secret, d'un homme, puis de lettres dans le but d’une conquête de l'Europe. - Summary by Bidou For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, arsene lupin, policier, aventures
LibriVox recording of Bible (YLT) NT 12: Epistle to the Colossians (Version 2) by Young's Literal Translation. Read in English by Tiwo In 1887 Dr. Young issued a Revised Edition, of which two impressions are exhausted. The work has been subjected to a new revision, making no alteration on the principles on which the Translation proceeds but endeavoring to make it as nearly perfect in point of accuracy on its present lines as possible. (Summary by Tiwo) For further information, including links...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, religion, Christianity, bible, New Testament, Apostle Paul, God, Jesus,...
LibriVox Aufnahme von Interessante Kriminal-Prozesse, Teil 2 von Hugo Friedländer und Erich Sello. Auf Deutsch gelesen von LibriVox Freiwilligen. Nach vierzigjähriger Tätigkeit als Gerichtsreporter veröffentlichte Hugo Friedländer zwischen 1910 und 1921 seine zwölfbändige Sammlung »Interessante Kriminal-Prozesse von kulturhistorischer Bedeutung«. Auf knapp 3.000 Druckseiten behandelte Friedländer in diesem Pitaval 63 Gerichtsverfahren aus der Zeit des deutschen Kaiserreichs, die sich...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Hörbuch, Deutsch, Deutschland, gericht, prozeß, richter, geschworene,...
LibriVox recording of Lake Lyrics and Other Poems by William Wilfred Campbell. Read in English by Librivox volunteers A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of Ontario. These poems reflect Campbell's deep love of Nature as God's Creation. (Summary by Alan Mapstone) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, nature, Canadian, lyric
LibriVox recording of The Song of the Waters by William Murray Graydon. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Song of the Waters by William Murray Graydon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 2, 2022. ----- William Murray Graydon, February 4, 1864 – April 5, 1946, was an extremely prolific American writer who also wrote under the pen-names Alfred Armitage, William Murray, and Tom Olliver. He published a wide variety of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, nature, river
LibriVox recording of Theft by Jack London. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This is a political play which is set in Washington DC. Howard Knox is a congressman and believes that there are corrupt practices going on at the firm of a very wealthy industrialist. Knox is being helped by the industrialists daughter who is helping him to locate documents that will support his claims. (Summary by Michele Eaton) Cast List: Stage Directions: Michele Eaton Mrs Starkweather: WendyKatzHiller Knox:...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording of Gold of the Gods by Arthur B. Reeve. Read in English by Vineymala Mansiche, the ruler of ancient Northern Peru was believed to have buried a huge treasure. But he cast a curse on, whoever, divulged the whereabouts of the treasure and those who might discover it. A Peruvian dagger is stolen from the Museum from under the nose of Prof. Allen Norton and a treasure hunter Don Luis de Mendoza is killed by it. Is it the curse of Mansiche? Will the curse next befall on his...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Mystery, murder, treasure, curse, dagger, gold of the gods, curse of...
LibriVox recording of The Forest Reverie by Edgar Allan Poe. Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Forest Reverie by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 2, 2022. ----- Whilst Edgar Poe was editor of the Broadway Journal , some poems were published over the signature of "A. M. Ide". In order, doubtless, to give a show of variety, Poe was then publishing some of his known works in his journal over noms de...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, love, pain, loss
LibriVox recording of We Were There at the Normandy Invasion by Clayton Knight. Read in English by Wayne Cooke D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasion than most of us have ever seen. It tells of a young French boy, André Gagnon, and his exciting adventures as he helps the Maquis (the French Underground fighting the Germans), a shot down British airman, and the American soldiers in their...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, France, soldiers, World War II, normandy, d-day
LibriVox recording of Trees, Shown to the Children by C. E. Smith. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find in one's backyard and farther environs. A touch of science and a love of beauty are displayed here. - Summary by KevinS For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free...
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LibriVox recording of Ten Kittens by G. A. Puckett. Read in English by James R. Hedrick The stories of the ten kittens told in this book are true to life. They have been gathered from here and there over the country. All the kittens have lived and played their little parts in the life history as told in each chapter. The purpose of this collection of stories is to create more interest and love for kittens on the part of our boys and girls. If these stories help someone to be kinder to little...
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LibriVox recording of Isles of Eden by Laura Lee Davidson. Read in English by KevinS A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is independent, observant, and compassionate in her view of her 'simple' neighbors. Ms. Davidson's description of the natural world, also, in this idyllic setting and time is well worth the time of one's listening and contemplation. - Summary by KevinS For further information,...
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LibriVox recording of Harmer John; An Unworldly Story by Hugh Walpole. Read in English by David Wales Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name is “simplified” by the townsfolk to Harmer John. He is attracted to Polchester by the cathedral. He has a vision of transforming the town and its populace to a healthier and more beautiful state. He establishes a business, essentially a gymnasium, to...
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LibriVox recording of Later Treatises of Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria by Athanasius of Alexandria; Theodoret of Cyrus. (Translated by William Bright.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The times, for which God raised up Saint Athanasius, have, in many respects, a counterpart in our own. There is, now too, earnest, ever-enlarging, adherence to the faith, in those who hold it. But there is also a wide-spread dislike of definite doctrine, such as found a vent in the different...
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LibriVox recording of Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling. Read in English by Librivox volunteers Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time. The poems are written in the voice and language of soldiers of that time. The collection includes some of his best known poems. (Summary by Alan Mapstone) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of Anno Domini 2071 by Pieter Harting. (Translated by Alexander V. W. Bikkers.) Read in English by Volunteer Readers Curious to see how the world was imagined to be 50 years from now? Harting, under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, originally published his steampunk utopian novelette in 1865 under the title Anno 2065, but soon had to publish new editions because of all the changes happening at the time. We have in the catalogue the 1870 edition "Anno 2070" recorded in...
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LibriVox recording of Antologia della poesia italiana (1265-1400), ed. Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti. Read in Italian by LibriVox volunteers. Questa selezione dell'Antologia della poesia italiana, compilata e annotata da Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti, inizia con la poesia di Guido Guinizelli e include il resto della prima parte dell'antologia. (Riassunto di Kazbek) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available),...
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LibriVox recording of Later Poems by Alice Meynell. Read in English by Newgatenovelist Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as the natural world. - Summary by Newgatenovelist For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to...
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LibriVox recording of Mongan's Frenzy by James Stephens. Read in English by Michele Fry James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and you will spend some considerable time in Faery. It is funny, quirky, fast paced, full of surprises, and sometimes sarcastic, as only James Stephens can be. Stephens also wrote several original novels (The Charwoman's Daughter, The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Celtic, fairy tales, Irish fairy tales, magic, short stories, Faery
LibriVox recording of The Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs! by General Foods Corporation. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Published by the General Foods Corporation, featuring Calumet Baking baking powder, these recipes cover a variety of baked goods from biscuits, cakes, cookies, pies, rolls & bread, frostings & sauces, muffins, waffles & griddle cakes. (Summary by Larry Wilson) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Frances Trego Montgomery. Read in English by volunteer readers. Billy Whiskers, Stubby and Button return from France to New York where new adventures await our favorite goat and his friends. Trouble is sure to turn up in all sorts of places – at school, an unexpected shower, up in a dirigible and in Chicago. Who are the old crow and the elephant? - Summary by Larry Wilson For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of The Wounded Soldier in the Convent by François Coppée. (Translated by George Curzon.) Read in English by volunteer readers. LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Wounded Soldier in the Convent by François Coppée. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23, 2022, in honour of Coppée's 180th birthday on January 26. The poem was written in Paris during the Siege, November 1870 and celebrates caring nurses (specifically, nuns) who work with difficult...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, war, nurses, pain, care
LibriVox recording of Cádiz, Episodios Nacionales VIII, serie I by Benito Pérez Galdós. Read in Spanish by Alexelmagno. Acorralada por el infame francés, toda España se ha refugiado en Cádiz. Todos huyen ante el empuje del invasor: nobles, políticos, periodistas, soldados, escritores, mercantes y hasta mendigos. Cádiz se convierte en el corazón de la nación, en la fragua donde tomarán forma las nuevas ideas. Y Gabriel, cómo no, también está allí. Apasionantes aventuras y nuevos...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, episodios nacionales, Cádiz, galdós, guerra de la independencia
LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers "From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete with good counsel. How, what, and from whom we learn is thematic to many of these 20 nonfiction selections, chosen by their readers. We learn from the lives of valorous persons (Simón Bolívar; José de San Martín; Booker T. Washington; Ishi, the...
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LibriVox recording of The Romance of Modern Geology by Edwin Sharpe Grew. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the building and shaping of the earth, the action of weather, rivers, seas and ice on the earth, earthquakes and volcanoes, and, of course, dinosaurs and other extinct animals. - Summary by Ann Boulais For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, dinosaurs, geology, earth science, library of romance series
LibriVox recording of Mother Stories from the Old Testament by Anonymous. Read in English by Woolly Bee & Nan Dodge Mother Stories from the Old Testament is a book of the best stories from the Old Testament that mothers can tell their children. - Summary by WoollyBee For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become...
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